Senator Ben Murray-Bruce has
appealed to Atiku Abubakar to return to the People’s Democratic Party (PDP).

Bruce, who made this appeal on
his social media page on Friday, congratulated and praised Atiku for the
courage he took to leave APC.

Atiku Abubakar on Friday
announced that he has dumped APC.

According to the statement Atiku
said, "On the 19th of December, 2013, I received members of the All
Progressives Congress at my house in Abuja. They had come to appeal to me to
join their party after my party, the Peoples Democratic Party, had become
factionalized as a result of the special convention of August 31, 2013.

"The fractionalization of
the Peoples Democratic Party on August 31, 2013 had left me in a situation
where I was, with several other loyal party members, in limbo, not knowing
which of the parallel executives of the party the legitimate leadership was.

“it was under this cloud that
members of the APC made the appeal to me to join their party, with the promise
that the injustices and failure to abide by its own constitution which had
dogged the then PDP, would not be replicated in the APC and with the assurance
that the vision other founding fathers and I had for the PDP could be
actualized through the All Progressives Congress.

"It was on the basis of this
invitation and the assurances made to me that I, being party-less at that time,
due to the fractionalization of my party, accepted on February 2, 2014, the
hand of fellowship given to me by the All Progressives Congress.

" On that day, I said 'it is
the struggle for democracy and constitutionalism and service to my country and
my people that are driving my choice and my decision' to accept the invitation
to join the All Progressives Congress.

"Like you, I said that
because I believed that we had finally seen the beginnings of the rebirth of
the new Nigeria of our dreams which would work for all of us, old and young.

" However, events of the
intervening years have shown that like any other human and like many other
Nigerians, I was fallible. While other parties have purged themselves of the
arbitrariness and unconstitutionality that led to fractionalization, the All
Progressives Congress has adopted those same practices and even gone beyond them
to institute a regime of a draconian clampdown on all forms of democracy within
the party and the government it produced.

"Only last year, a governor
produced by the party wrote a secret memorandum to the president which ended up
being leaked. In that memo, he admitted
that the All Progressives Congress had 'not only failed to manage expectations
of a populace that expected overnight ‘change’ but has failed to deliver even
mundane matters of governance."

Read tweet below:

I congratulate @Atiku for leaving the APC. It took courage especially as he has wide business investments that are already targets and could be further targeted. I, Senator Ben Murray-Bruce, now appeal to Waziri Adamawa, to return to the house he helped build, the PDP.